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Wednesday, 29 April 2015

The ghostly horizon of the year 600

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[ Here, for your comments and reactions and to help me get back into it, is the current draft of the opening to my book of the Transformati...
Monday, 20 April 2015

The Myth of Relevance (Part 2)

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[ Here is the next installment of the chapter.  As last time , it was mostly written a year ago.  It is very much a draft and most if not a...
Wednesday, 15 April 2015

The Myth of Relevance (Part 1)

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[ I have, you might have noticed, been rather creatively 'blocked' for the past few months.  I am trying to get myself back into wr...
Wednesday, 11 March 2015

Belatedly - Thanks to James Aitcheson

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The historical novelist James Aitcheson very kindly listed Worlds of Arthur as one his top books of 2014.  I am afraid I only came across t...
Tuesday, 10 February 2015

Archaeology is just an expensive way of finding out what historians already know...

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... (or something very like that), said a waspish Peter Sawyer in a lecture some time around 1980.  Sadly for him, Philip Rahtz was in the ...
Thursday, 29 January 2015

An old review of Bachrach's Early Carolingian Warfare: Prelude to Empire

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[ Bernard Bachrach occupies a vitally important place in modern medieval studies, a real asset.  We live in a world, in which the tenets of ...
Thursday, 22 January 2015

The Transformations of the Year 600: A Historical Experiment (or, ‘How I learnt to start worrying and love Jacques Derrida’.)

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[ This is the rabble-rousing paper I gave last night to a well-attended departmental research seminar (my thanks to everyone who came, espec...